AbstractThis article studies an excerpt taken from a radio show during which two presenters do a heterosexual coming out on the occasion of the international coming out day (October 11). Within the framework of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, the study discusses the sequential format of the coming out episode, along with other instances gathered from other media settings. Although the coming out has been largely discussed within gender studies, up to now it has not been analysed in its interactional details on the basis of documented occurrences. The paper further shows how this occurrence of coming out is at the service of a radio show on precisely this issue, and how the presenters then collectively prepare and put into practice their broadcasted show. Thanks to a video recording of the work in the studio, we will describe how the topic of the international coming out day is produced and orchestrated backstage. This aims at contributing, from an interactional sequential perspective, to gender studies, elaborating on the epistemology of the closet dear to Eve Sedgwick, by offering an anatomy of coming out that shows epistemic as well as other issues, related to hetero- and homo-normativity, publicization and spectacularisation.

AbstractThis article studies an excerpt taken from a radio show during which two presenters do a heterosexual coming out on the occasion of the international coming out day (October 11). Within the framework of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, the study discusses the sequential format of the coming out episode, along with other instances gathered from other media settings. Although the coming out has been largely discussed within gender studies, up to now it has not been analysed in its interactional details on the basis of documented occurrences. The paper further shows how this occurrence of coming out is at the service of a radio show on precisely this issue, and how the presenters then collectively prepare and put into practice their broadcasted show. Thanks to a video recording of the work in the studio, we will describe how the topic of the international coming out day is produced and orchestrated backstage. This aims at contributing, from an interactional sequential perspective, to gender studies, elaborating on the epistemology of the closet dear to Eve Sedgwick, by offering an anatomy of coming out that shows epistemic as well as other issues, related to hetero- and homo-normativity, publicization and spectacularisation.

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